Always ahead of her time, no other major poet of the last century enters the twenty-first so fresh, so essentially unexplored as does Laura Riding. Her formidable credentials as a modernist need no longer distract attention from the class-of-her-own this writer occupies. Beginning in spiritual respe[...]
Anarchism is Not Enough is a manifesto against systematic thinking, a difficult book by a famously difficult writer. For the scope of its critical imagination, it is the most radical work of Laura Riding's early period. This period extends from the end of 1925, when she left America for Europe and R[...]
Den intelligenta, energiska, egensinniga och kontroversiella Laura Riding var den litterära modernismens spader dam. På 1930-talet räknades hon till den engelskspråkiga poesins största namn vid sidan av Eliot och Pound, men efter att ha gett ut sina samlade dikter 1938 lämnade hon poesin och �[...]